Workplace reviews and discussion: 岳洋股份有限公司

Let me share my interview and work experience from 2020: Yue Yang specializes in parking lot management and is a subsidiary of FURLER. It has quite a reputation, and anyone who has worked in a parking lot will understand. I applied because I thought the company had a strong background and solid capabilities.

On the day of the interview, a junior supervisor inside handed me a stack of company documents about 5 cm thick and asked me to fill them out. I think everyone has filled out forms like these before, but Yue Yang was exceptionally special: they wanted me to finish the entire stack on-site. (First: Damn, are you kidding me? Have I even confirmed that I want the job? Second: Once I finish, can I submit it? Have I opened a bank account? Have I photocopied and attached everything? What about my ID card? Third: They said that if this booklet wasn’t completely filled out, it couldn’t be submitted to the head office… because the head office had to wait until the entire booklet was completed before calling new hires in to work and enrolling them in labor and health insurance. Fuck, I’ve never heard that you have to fill out all the personal information required by the company before you can be enrolled in labor and health insurance. Even more ridiculous, the people applying for parking lot management jobs are generally older, yet they actually asked for a graduation certificate; if you didn’t have one, they told you to go back to school and apply for it. Did I hear that wrong, or are you idiots?)

That’s how they kept me there for an hour. Even after I finished, I had to wait until everything was completed before I could submit it and start work. Utterly idiotic.

On my first day of work, the contract clearly stated that the shift was 12 hours, but two of those hours were designated as employee break time, so they weren’t paid. It sounded pretty okay… On the first day, I slept through the entire break and still didn’t exceed the allotted time. Starting on the second day, they told us new hires to stand next to the automatic payment machines and help customers pay, as if they were worried customers wouldn’t know how to use them?! Damn, it’s called an “automatic payment machine.” The customers aren’t blind, illiterate, or incapable of understanding… They had us stand there for 12 hours, then send someone over during mealtime to relieve us for half an hour so we could eat. So here’s the question… weren’t they effectively making us work 12 hours while only paying us for 10? Also: The whole point of using automatic payment machines is to reduce labor costs and speed up the process… Why make us stand there and repeat the same instructions to every single customer? Are we idiots? Or was it just because the machine was installed at Neili Carrefour, where there are lots of people? What’s the point of verbally explaining it to everyone who comes by? Do they think customers will spread the word tenfold, then a hundredfold? Or do they think that once a customer comes next time, they’ll know how to use it? How is this any different from having staff collect the fees manually? It actually wastes more time and money. There’s a saying that sums it up: “Incompetent generals wear out the troops.” That’s exactly what the deputy manager of Zhongli Ziqiang Parking Lot and your crappy subordinate are like.

By the way… this parking lot is called “City Parking.” Also, the comment above is right: this place completely depends on who you are—if you have the right connections, everything is fine…